TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO THE MOSCOW SOVIET

Written:Written on July 7, 1918Published:Published on July 8 (June 25), 1918 inPravdaNo. 139 andIzvestiaNo. 141.

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Tobe transmitted to all volost, village and uyezd Soviets
of Moscow
Gubernia.[1]

Thedefeated bands of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries who
revolted against Soviet power are scattering through the
surrounding districts. The leaders of this whole adventure are
fleeing. Take all steps to capture and detain those who had
the insolence to rise against Soviet power. Detain all cars.
Lower barriers over the highways everywhere. Concentrate
near them armed detachments of the local workers and
peasants. There is information that one armoured car, which
the rebels possessed, has got out of the city. Take all steps
to detain this armoured car.

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Gubernia,uyezd, volost—Russian administrative-territorial
units. The largest of these was the gubernia, which had its
subdivisions in uyezds, which in turn were subdivided into volosts. This
system continued under Soviet power until the introduction of the new
system of administrative-territorial division in 1929–30.—Ed.